Tasha Tudor (1915–2008), Children’s Book Author and Illustrator

Tasha Tudor, whose children’s books evoked a gentle bygone world, has died in Vermont at 92. Douglas Martin reports in the New York Times that Tudor often said she was the reincarnation of a sea captain’s wife who lived from 1800 to 1840 or 1842 and was replicating that way of life, which was also reflected in her books. Her son Seth suggested “that his mother’s more colorful remarks might be taken with a pinch of salt,” Martin said. www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/books/20tudor.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

You’re very welcome. One of the things I admired about Tasha Tudor was that she seemed to know who she was from the start of her career and never deviated from her vision. She wasn’t blown about by the winds of fashion, as so many authors of children’s books are.